On 2012/02/19 09:15 (GMT-0800) Tab Atkins Jr. composed:
> It's largely people using the pt unit for fonts, but the other
> units show up at times, and people expect them to have a dependable
> ratio with px.
Others expect measuring units defined centuries ago to retain the same
meaning in novel contexts as they do in traditional contexts. cf. the puter
world's hijacking of decimal multiples MB, KB, GB, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
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